by Allegra Skye
“They’re here,” he gasped suddenly.
It was that odd time of day when it wasn’t quiet night and wasn’t quiet day. Keira could see that these creatures were pulsating, as if about to lose their body shapes and turn into shadows.
Keira stood up immediately and pulled on her clothes.
The creatures closed in on them, hungering for the kill.
Keira felt the injustice of it all. Just as she had finally found true love, these monsters were going to try to take it all away. It wasn’t fair. Enough was enough. Her entire life she had been bullied and pushed around. She was determined not to let it happen again. And especially not let it happen to Cooper. She couldn’t let his love for her kill him! .
Keira suddenly knew the way to destroy them. If Cooper’s love had drawn them here, his love could also kill them.. If his love was really true, and deep enough, it could do anything for both of them. Nothing could stand up to love like that. She knew that her love was true and deep.. She needed to know if his was, too.
“I love you!” Keira screamed, over the noise, “and I won’t let anything take that away. Say you love me too!”
“I love you too!” he yelled back fiercely.
She felt his words enter her, and knew they were real and deep.
Suddenly, Keira felt herself transform.
She saw herself completely surrounded in indigo light, a huge bubble that spread out further and further, moment by moment.
Cooper lunged forward then, trying to protect Keira.
But Keira didn’t need protection. An even stronger power rose through her. Suddenly, she felt herself become huge, electrified, capable of anything.
She reached out her hands, palms up, and watched as the indigo light shot out from them, spreading in every direction towards the creatures.
As it hit them, they shrieked, an unearthly noise, and sank to their knees.
Keira turned and turned, shooting the light in every direction, in a complete circle, and all around them, the creatures collapsed.
Soon, it was just Keira and Cooper, standing there in the morning light, in silence, alone together.
Cooper looked at her, his jaw open, in utter shock.
He was barely able to speak.
“Who are you?” he asked.
Keira looked around, at the mayhem, and was shocked at the immensity of her power.
Who am I? she wondered.
It was a question she had pondered since birth.
But now she didn’t merely want to know. She needed to know.
She suddenly realized that finding the answer would take her on a journey, one that opened up new worlds that exceeded her wildest dreams.
And she knew, she just knew, that Cooper would be there with her, wherever she went, every step of the way.
COMING SOON…
Book #2 of the Shadow Vampires
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Table of Contents
Title page
Copyright © 2011 by Allegra Skye All rights reserved
"I must be myself
PROLOGUE Keira Blaine was born second
CHAPTER 1 Keira remembered everything
CHAPTER 2 At dinner that night
CHAPTER 3 No matter what
CHAPTER 4 After dinner Keira went straight to her bedroom
CHAPTER 5 Keira woke in the morning exhausted
CHAPTER 6 Keira was unable to concentrate for the rest of the day
CHAPTER 7 The party was called for eight o’clock
CHAPTER 8 Keira heard her name being called from far away
CHAPTER 9 When Keira awoke in the hospital
CHAPTER 10 After she woke up
CHAPTER 11 Everyone in town heard about the accident
CHAPTER 12 The first day back to school was impossible
CHAPTER 13 Who is Cooper
CHAPTER 14 Bacterial Epidemic hits Everstock
CHAPTER 15 Keira walked into the house
CHAPTER 16 The bus on the corner drove Keira right to the main entrance of the hospital
CHAPTER 17 Keira walked out of the hospital feeling good for the first time in a long time
CHAPTER 18 Cooper quickly pulled her to him
CHAPTER 19 Keira didn’t want to sleep alone in Cooper’s room; she wanted to curl up in his arms and be close to him all night long
CHAPTER 20 When Keira woke in the morning the bright light was shining in through the windows
CHAPTER 21 Keira ran without knowing where she was going
CHAPTER 22 Keira and Cooper walked along the lake
CHAPTER 23 Keira and Cooper woke to the breaking dawn light
COMING SOON… Book #2 of the Shadow Vampires
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